I'm only a newbie here but thought I'd post this up to see what I could find. Wh9ile I'm not strictly speaking in New Zealand, I did get this site recommended to me because I'm just over the pond in Oz.

I've recently become the owner of a BBC Micro (upgraded to support disk drives and EcoNet). At this point, it's the machien only - and I've tested it and it currently works. The only downside is I don't have any storage for it. I'm hoping to find a (reasonably) local source of a disk drive for it so I can attempt to turn it into something useful.

As I'm a newbie and in Australia, I expect peopel to be a bt cautious - I can understand that - but I may as well ask and see what I can turn up.

Some PC 5.25 drives can be used with the BBC with a bit of modification. If you can find one with jumpers on it, and you don't mind making up the cables, there is a way to make them read BBC discs. You need to make them spin at 300 RPM I recall. Setting jumper DS0 rings a bell too.

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Go with Tezza's original reccomendation, the MMC drive can be purchased from Retroclinic on Ebay, they also do an external version which requires no soldering and provides you with virtual hard/floppy disks and usb connectivity.

I have a BBC master128 with an onboard MMC and it is loaded with just about every piece of software ever released on the machine, classic gaming with no trailing wires.

If you really want to go down the purist route - various drives are available for the BBC and can regularly be found on Ebay, the most common ones being Acorn, Watford and Cumana-just the problem of postage to consider.

Interesting. I don't have that on mine. Next time the BBC is out I must check if Pin 1 is tried to VCC on the PCB. It may not be so would be floating without the pullup resistor which may cause problems... with some EPROMs anyway.

Wanted: S-100 Bus components - please PM me if you have any. They don't even need to work!